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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC) was a tongue-in-cheek contest, held annually and sponsored by the English Department of San José State University in San Jose, California until 2025. [1] Entrants were invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels" – that is, one which was deliberately bad.
A dibber or dibble or dibbler is a pointed wooden stick for making holes in the ground so that seeds, seedlings or small bulbs can be planted. Dibbers come in a variety of designs including the straight dibber, T-handled dibber, trowel dibber, and L-shaped dibber.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
On Dec. 7 at North Henderson High School, 11th grader Citlally Diaz, 17, was honored for winning one of just four $3,000 scholarship grand prize awards out of thousands of entries across the country.
Bulb Energy, a British-based energy supplier (2013–2023) The Better Use of Light Bulbs Act (BULB Act), an unenacted U.S. federal legislative proposal; Bulbs, a slang term for testicles. Bulbus glandis
The "Writers of the Future" contest is run quarterly and is open to authors who have no, or few, professional publications. The contest rules state that entrants cannot have had published "a novel or short novel, or more than one novelette, or more than three short stories, in any medium. Professional publication is deemed to be payment and at ...
The essay is concerned with the ethics of boiling a creature alive in order to enhance the consumer's pleasure, including a discussion of a lobster's sensory neurons. "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" Review of Fyodor Dostoevsky's biography written by Stanford University professor Joseph Frank.
The rules don’t affect bulbs that you already own; they also exempt special purpose incandescents such as those used inside ovens. But suppose you discard — or give away — your halogen and ...